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The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was launched in April 2004 by a group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals in Ramallah, in the West Bank. PACBI is part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The campaign calls for BDS activities against Israel to put international pressure on Israel, in this case against Israeli academic institutions, all of which are said by PACBI to be implicated in the perpetuation of Israeli occupation, in order to achieve BDS goals.[1][2] The goal of the proposed academic boycotts is to isolate Israel in order to force a change in Israel's policies towards the Palestinians, which proponents argue are discriminatory and oppressive, including oppressing the academic freedom of Palestinians.[3]
One of the founders was Omar Barghouti,[4] who is also a co-founder of the BDS campaign. PACBI is a member of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC).
- ^ Keller, Uri Yacobi (October 2009). "Academic Boycott of Israel and the Complicity of Israeli Academic Institutions in Occupation of Palestinian Territories" (PDF). Economy of the Occupation. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-13. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ "PACBI Guidelines for the International Academic Boycott of Israel". PACBI. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ Judith Butler (2006). "Israel/Palestine and the Paradoxes of Academic Freedom". Radical Philosophy. 135: 8–17. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
- ^ Academic boycotter to study in Tel Aviv. Anshel Pfeffer, The Jewish Chronicle, 23 April 2009